Word: girlishness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Real Womanliness." What Maria does give, according to Director Brooks, is something new to U.S. show business. Instead of North American sex, Maria has Central European Seele, which Brooks defines as a sort of spiritual dreaminess, interfused with girlish innocence and a tender maternal quality. They all add up to "real womanliness." Says Brooks: "Here for the first time on the screen the American man will see a woman who really understands him, who can give herself as American women have never learned to. This is the woman that American women long to be, and that American men are looking...
...Girlish Sins. The Diary is full of the fun, the beauty, and some of the pain of growing up in a primitive town where recently freed slaves were still living with their old masters by choice. Helena is by turns gay and sad, willful and full of remorse for her girlish sins. But one thing she is from beginning to end-a fine little writer, with a gift for precise observation that many an adult writer develops only after years of practice. She is now 77, wrote nothing else that got into print. But to the small shelf of notable...
...some things to do (dancing lessons, reducing sessions), but there is a good chance that she will sell. Jennie's voice is still maturing from callow to mellow, but it is husky and wholesome, sounds fine in simple arrangements of When I Fall in Love and the little-girlish My Very Good Friend in the Looking Glass, timidly torchy in I'm a Fool to Want You. From her Victor royalties, Jennie has an excellent prospect of becoming rich enough to retire before she is old enough to vote, but to do it she will have to outdraw...
Please! Mr. Balzac (DCA) offers Brigitte in a part appropriately cut to her girlish measure, but in a picture that ought to be cut in half. Brigitte is cast as a girl of good provincial family, who has secretly written a bestselling novel-a fact which so horrifies her father that he ships her off to a convent. Wrong train, of course, and Brigitte winds up in Paris in the company of two young journalists (Daniel Gelin and Robert Hirsch) who have no money but plenty of notions. Brigitte soon gets one of her own, and enters a striptease contest...
...rebellion "troubles" in 1921, a horde of citizens, ostensibly thumbing their beads, conspire to rescue a Condemned young revolutionary from his British jailers. Wearing saucy high heels under their false habits, two fake nuns thoroughly enjoy their patriotic lark at the death cell, wink, exchange secret smiles and repress girlish giggles while a fine broth of a boy barely escapes the noose...